Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I love to fly so much.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
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I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
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I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.
